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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turner, also blinded in the War, has been golfing for eleven years. Most famed player lacking perfect vision is one-eyed Tommy Armour, another War victim, who won British and U. S. Open championships. A close match might be played between Dr Oxenham and Thomas Mc-Aulitfe, Buffalo, N. Y. newshawk who has no arms. He clinches his club between cheek and shoulder, scores in the high...
...health and while clerking in a store got the idea of building a chain. His original "Golden Rule Stores" grew into J. C. Penney Co. with 1,471 units in 48 States and an annual business of $155,000,000. Last week from his home in White Plains, N. Y. James Cash Penney dismissed the depositors' charges as "un-true." His attorney stated that in addition to the $3,000,000 invested in the bank. James Cash Penney had $700,000 on deposit when the bank failed...
...Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester, N. Y. and New York City, reprinting old prose and poetry on which the copyright had run out. About that time he was also touring the U. S. as X. La Motte Sage, giving exhibitions of hypnotism. This led to The Philosophy of Personal Influence, distributed by mail from Rochester, which offered courses...
...make an ideal Carroll heroine. Paramount settled the matter by means of a '"contest" in which some 7,000 would-be Alices were considered. After a minimum of hemming and hawing the prize role was given to a pretty round-faced 17-year-old girl from Brooklyn, N. Y. named Charlotte Henry. The direction of the picture was assigned to Norman McLeod (Horsefeathers, If I Had a Million) and real actors were engaged for all parts except those of the Walrus, the Carpenter and the Oysters. Two days after Miss Henry got her contract, the picture started...
Died. Theodore Moses Tobani, 78, composer of "Hearts and Flowers" and of 5,479 other pieces; of a stroke; in Queens, N. Y. "Hearts and Flowers," of which 23,000,000 copies have been sold since 1893, won him so much attention from fledgling composers that he moved from Manhattan to Queens, put "real estate" after his name in the telephone book...